Written by

Todd Hill
CentralOhio.com

On Sept. 30, 1977, the TV series "Happy Days" aired an episode titled "Hollywood: Part 3" to premiere its fifth season.

The actor Henry Winkler, who played Arthur Fonzarelli, aka the Fonz or Fonzie, was fond of water-skiing, so to show off his skills the series' writers conceived a scene in which his character bravely water-skied over a shark. Since the shark was in a cage, the scene was not especially compelling.

"Happy Days" continued to air for several more years, finally ending in 1984, by which time the handwriting on the wall was already fading. In the late 1990s a guy named Jon Hein, ...